h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

simple little recipe:
250g plain flour
125g butter
125g brown sugar
1 egg-beaten
2tsps mixed spices-or cinammon
pinch of salt

125g icing sugar
2 tablespoons warm water
food colouring
cakes decorations-100's & 1000's etc.

Method.
set the oven to gas mark 5/190

grease 2 baking trays.
beat the butter and sugar together in a bowl-and add the beaten egg-bit by bit.
put the flour, salt and spice into a sieve, and add to the butter,sugar and egg mixture. Mix it altogether 'til it makes a dough.

dust a board lightly with flour and dust your rolling-pin. Roll out the dough to a thickness of half a centimetre. Then using cutters or a knife, make some shapes-or use an upside down cup to make circles.

Put the biscuit shapes on the greased tray, and bake on a high shelf in the oven for 15 minutes-or more or less depending on your oven.

Take the biscuits out of the oven and put them on a wire rack til they are cool.

Make up the icing with the icing sugar and water, adding the water drip by drip-so it's not runny. add food colouring to the icing if you like, then ice the biscuits-and once the icing starts to set-bung on the decorations-candy balls, jelly diamonds, chocolate strands-go wild!